On July 8, 2024, counsel for the petitioners was sent an email with the video documenting the audit that was conducted, which due to a malfunction was dropped from the summons to the hearing, to which the petitioner responded on July 10, 2024.
- On April 8, 2024, the petitioner submitted questions and arguments and requested an extension to provide his response to the summons to the hearing. On April 11, 2024, he was granted an extension until May 19, 2024. In response, the petitioner sent a detailed email message on the same day (April 11, 2024), in which he claimed, among other things, that the ministry does not have the authority to hold a written hearing. He was therefore informed on April 16, 2024 that there was no need to hold an oral hearing. Even earlier, on April 14, 2024, a response was sent on behalf of the petitioner only regarding the branch in Kiryat Ata, to which the Deputy Director of the Ministry's Pharmacy Division responded, only with regard to the pharmacy aspects.
- On May 18, 2024, the petitioner approached the Director General of the Ministry of Health with a request to disqualify the Deputy Director of the Pharmacy Division, Major Eli Marom, from making a decision in his case due to allegations of a conflict of interest. After examining the claim, the Director General of the Ministry of Health rejected the request for lack of basis.
The petitioner did not send a response to the hearing, but instead, on May 26, 2024, he filed an administrative petition to stay the hearing proceedings (Administrative Petition (Jerusalem) 62329-05-24), in which arguments were raised regarding the legality of the hearing process and regarding the alleged conflict of interest of the district pharmacist and others. In a decision dated June 3, 2024, the court (the Honorable Justice v. Flex) rejected the request for an interim order and the petition was dismissed on July 28, 2024.
Another administrative petition was filed two days later, on May 28, 2024 (Administrative Petition (Jerusalem) 69751-05-24), essentially identical to the one filed two months earlier, regarding the failure to respond to the petitioners' requests (Administrative Petition (Jerusalem) 16013-03-24, mentioned above). On June 9, 2024, an interim order was requested in the framework of the previous petition (Administrative Petition (Jerusalem) 16013-03-24), which was rejected by the court's decision (the Honorable Judge A. Abarbanel) of June 17, 2024, and the petition was dismissed on July 1, 2024. At the petitioner's request, on August 13, 2024, the additional petition was also deleted (Administrative Petition (Jerusalem) 69751-05-24 (the Honorable Judge A. Abarbanel)).